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The Pope
Welshbreed:
--- Quote ---FCO Facts and Figures
The FCO is a network of 16,000 people working at 260 diplomatic posts worldwide. We employ around 6,000 UK civil servants and 10,000 staff are recruited locally at our posts.
Supporting British nationals overseas
In 2005/06 we:
Dealt with over 3.1 million enquiries from British nationals overseas.
Issued nearly 450,000 British passports.
Helped more than 27,000 people in serious distress.
Made over 5,200 visits to people detained abroad.
Supported over 100 British families affected by new cases of international child abduction.
Helped around 200 British nationals to escape from forced marriages overseas.
Our online travel advice on 219 countries is visited nearly 323,000 times a month.
Our rapid deployment teams were in action ten times in 2006, assisting British nationals caught up in international crises.
We sent our largest-ever rapid deployment team of 116 staff to help with evacuating 4,600 people from Lebanon in July 2006.
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Source: http://www.fco.gov.uk/servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1161588728518
My point being, does anyone remember the names of just 50 of those children who were abducted ast year? and as it says "over 100 new british childeren kidnappings in the year 05/06 alone"
Did we hear about all 100 kidnappings? I didn't
Lee_D:
They aren't abductions as in snatches off the street though. They are in the main abductions as in taking your own child out of the country mid divorce and your partner cries abduction.
So you won't have heard about them because the Child isn't at High risk and also It's with a parent / carer in my experience who is unlikely to harm the child. They just don't have the relevant authority in the eyes of the law it really is that simple.
Again alot of these situations come about from forced marriages which in turn if you look at statistically affects certain cultures . Our Force takes Forced marriages very seriously and I'd like to think we would look after anyone who came to us for help.
wizard:
Well, god forbid if one of my kids went missing, but if it took a meeting with the pope to help get them back then so be it.
Hundreds of kids go awol every year, but hundreds of parents dont pull out all the stops to get them back.
If getting extra publicity means using the media and sucking upto the pope so be it.
Stop whinging and start helping.
wizard :twisted:
Bishops Finger:
Think its a tad sick...can't see the Pope popping over to Baghdad to help the kids blown up or orphaned after attacks....or religion helping in Darfur.... :evil: :evil: :evil:
hairyasswelder:
--- Quote from: "Bishops Finger" ---Think its a tad sick...can't see the Pope popping over to Baghdad to help the kids blown up or orphaned after attacks....or religion helping in Darfur.... :evil: :evil: :evil:
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Baghdad mmmm a good catholic town :? :? :? :? Why the ...... wold the pope go there.
If religion is your thing and you get comfort from it then why not ?????
Steve
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